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[Predated]

I have several folders that all hold text and html files. Each of these folders relate to 1 person, but each person can have up to 2 folders that will be vastly different in folder name. I need to consolidate all the text and html files into 1 folder.

I'm having difficulty conceptualizing how I would do this.

Folder names would be similar to the following:

"John" could have files in john2@work and/or conference@work-John2 - 12
"Kandi" could have files in kandi@work and/or conference@work-Kandi - 43
"Amy" could have files in amy2227@work and/or conference@work-amy2227

I'm stumbling on how I would be able to logically tie these folders together, then move the contents. In my head it seems like I could search for the string 'john2' in both folder names, but from there I'm not being able to put the rest of the concept together. I don't have any code written because I'm stuck at the concept phase.

Basically this is more an opinion, I don't want anyone to write it for me, but a push in the right direction from some fresh eyes would be great.

[Murp|e]

Clarifying exactly what you want to do and possibly writing it down before you write any code is well worth the effort!

First you will need a list that contains all of the names of the people you want to move. The list could look like this:
John
Kandi
Amy

The first thing you do is create a loop which loops through all of the people in this list, something like Loop, parse, PeopleList, `n.

Inside that loop you create another loop which loops through all of the subfolders of a certain folder Loop, %topfolder%\*, 2, 1

For each run through the loop you check if the current folder name (contained in the default variable A_LoopFileName of the inner loop) contains the name of the current person (contained in the defaulft variable A_Loopfield of the outer loop). If it does contain that name, then move all the contents (and possibly delete the folder?).

[Predated-not logged in]

True, but this (in my mind) makes it hard to grow the script in the future. I was trying to stay away from a static list.

I think I came up with a way to do it while I was in the car earlier though, I'll post back later.

[Murp|e]

I tried to outline the most straightforward solution. I completely agree that you should avoid static lists, but the described method can be used regardless of how you create the lists.

[Predated]

Got a chance to come back to this, thanks Murple

[Murp|e]

Looks good to me!